Cubatão

Cubatão is an industrial city once known as the "most polluted city in the world", in the of . It is considered a world symbol of environmental recovery by the United Nations.
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Highlights include Henry Borden Hydroelectric Power Plant and Pontilhão da Serra.

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Cubatão

Latitude
-23.8842° or 23° 53′ 3″ south
Longitude
-46.4213° or 46° 25′ 17″ west
Population
112,000
Elevation
6 metres (20 feet)
United Nations Location Code
BR CUO
Open location code
588M4H8H+8F
Open­Street­Map ID
node 368180195
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
3465059
Wiki­data ID
Q817954
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Welsh—“Cubatão” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: كيوباتو
  • Basque: Cubatão
  • Belarusian: Кубатан
  • Bengali: কুবাতাও
  • Bishnupriya: কুবাটাও
  • Bulgarian: Кубатао
  • Catalan: Cubatão
  • Cebuano: Cubatão
  • Chechen: Кубатан
  • Chinese: Cubatão
  • Chinese: 库巴唐
  • Chinese: 庫巴唐
  • Chinese: 庫巴坦
  • Czech: Cubatão
  • Danish: Cubatão
  • Dutch: Cubatao
  • Dutch: Cubatão
  • Egyptian Arabic: كيوباتو
  • Esperanto: Cubatão
  • Finnish: Cubatão
  • French: Cubatao
  • French: Cubatão
  • German: Cubatao
  • German: Cubatão
  • Greek: Κουμπατάο
  • Gujarati: ક્યુબાટેઓ
  • Hebrew: קובטאו
  • Hindi: कूबातो
  • Hungarian: Cubatão
  • Indonesian: Cubatão
  • Indonesian: Cubato
  • Indonesian: Kuba
  • Irish: Cubatão
  • Italian: Cubatão
  • Japanese: クバタン
  • Kannada: ಕ್ಯೂಬಟಾವೊ
  • Kazakh: Kwbatan
  • Kazakh: Кубатан
  • Kazakh: كۋباتان
  • Korean: 쿠바타오
  • Korean: 쿠바탕
  • Latvian: Kubatao
  • Lithuanian: Kubatanas
  • Lithuanian: Kubataunas
  • Malagasy: Cubatão
  • Malay: Cubatao
  • Marathi: क्युबाटॅनो
  • Mazanderani: کوباتو
  • Min Nan Chinese: Cubatão
  • Norwegian Bokmål: Cubatão
  • Norwegian: Cubatão
  • Ossetian: Кубатан
  • Persian: کوباتو
  • Polish: Cubatao
  • Polish: Cubatão
  • Portuguese: Cubatão
  • Portuguese: Jardim Casqueiro
  • Romanian: Cubatao
  • Romanian: Cubatão
  • Russian: Кубатан
  • Scots: Cubatao
  • Scots: Cubatão
  • Sinhala: කුබාටවෝ
  • Spanish: Cubatão
  • Swedish: Cubatão
  • Tamil: குபாடோ
  • Tatar: Кубатан
  • Telugu: క్యూబాటావ్
  • Thai: คูบาเทา
  • Turkish: Cubatao
  • Ukrainian: Кубатан
  • Urdu: کوباتاو
  • Venetian: Cubatão
  • Vietnamese: Cubatao
  • Volapük: Cubatão
  • Waray (Philippines): Cubatão
  • Welsh: Ciwbao
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